The fall of Phaethon. A Greco-Roman geomyth preserves the memory of a meteorite impact in Bavaria (south-east Germany)

• Autores: Barbara Rappenglück, Michael A. Rappenglück, Kord Ernstson, Werner Mayer, Andreas Neumair, Dirk Sudhaus, Ioannis Liritzis
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 84, Nº 324, 2010, págs. 428-439
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Arguing from a critical reading of the text, and scientific evidence on the ground, the authors show that the myth of Phaethon � the delinquent celestial charioteer � remembers the impact of a massive meteorite that hit the Chiemgau region in Bavaria between 2000 and 428 BC.